Dave Matthews’ Mom Useless at 89

Singer Dave Matthews‘ mom has died, TMZ has realized.

Valerie Matthews died February 9 in her Charlottesville, Virginia house, based on a web based obituary. We’re instructed Dave, his brother and his sister have been by her bedside when she died.

Sources with direct information inform TMZ … Valerie’s well being took a sudden decline as a consequence of pure causes, and he or she went into hospice. This was the explanation Dave needed to drop out of performing on the FireAid live performance to boost funds for L.A. wildfire victims and first responders on the eleventh hour final month.

Born in South Africa in 1935, Valerie and her husband John met in Johannesburg and had 4 youngsters collectively, together with Dave. Valerie grew to become an architect and labored in London and New York, earlier than the household settled in Charlottesville. John Matthews died in 1977 when Dave was 10. Valerie remarried in 1991.

She’s survived by three kids, six grandchildren, one great-grandchild, a brother, a brother-in-law, and step-family members.

Valerie was 89.